Culture
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Bedřich Smetana's "My Country" - a symphonic poem to the nation
October 28 is an important holiday in the Czech Republic as the day that the Czechoslovak - and thereby Czech - nation was born out of the ashes of the Austro-Hungarian…
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Ironic Curtain series spotlights Czech film since 1989 at New York’s Lincoln Center
A film series devoted to Czech cinema opened in New York on Friday at the prestigious Film Society of Lincoln Center. The series, called Ironic Curtain: Czech Cinema since…
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2009 Jihlava festival to screen over 200 documentaries from around globe
The 13th International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, the biggest event of its kind in Central Europe, gets underway on Tuesday. Over the following six days, it…
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Symbol of Czech statehood reopens as first museum of modern history
Wednesday marks the 91st anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia. In conjunction with that anniversary, the National Memorial on Prague’s Vítkov hill has just been…
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Richard Drury – English curator at home in Czech art world
Not long after moving to Prague at the start of 1991, Englishman Richard Drury began working as a curator at the Central Bohemian Gallery, previously known as the Czech…
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Petra Hůlová: a child’s mixed memories of the grown-ups’ revolution
A couple of years ago in this programme we spoke to the young Czech novelist Petra Hůlová about her epic novel of life in contemporary Mongolia, “Paměť mojí babičce“ –…
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Goebbels-Baarová: more than just a German-Czech love story
A play based on the short but stormy love affair between the Third Reich’s infamous propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and a young Czech film star has been causing quite…
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Slovak photojournalist wins Czech Press Photo with Obama, Masaryk photo
The winners of this year’s Czech Press Photo – a competition recognising the very best in Czech and Slovak photojournalism, were announced on Monday, with the main prize…
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Government approves incentives for filmmakers to revive struggling film industry
The 2009 American comedy “The Brothers Bloom” is out now in the Czech Republic with the unmistakeable skyline of Prague Castle – which gets blown up in the film –…
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Aleš Rumpel, head of the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
This autumn, the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival will celebrate 10 years of showing gay and lesbian-themed films to the Czechs. The festival is held between October 23 and…
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Author of Entropa plans provocative new artwork
Anyone even mildly familiar with the Czech art scene will have heard of David Černý, the 41 year-old artist who made international headlines earlier this year with Entropa…
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Miloš Forman focus of new documentary, ‘60s rock group Blue Effect release new box set
In this week’s Arts: a new documentary offers an overview of the great Czech film director Miloš Forman, and the 1960s rock group Blue Effect have just brought out a box…
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